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Rainbird said:

Slimebeast said:

KZ2 budget and revenue:

Dev cost:
100 team average x 4 years x $100,000 = $40 million.

Add some outsourcing costs (some AI, perhaps some texture work, some of the sound & music/orchestratingm voice actors etc) ~ $10 million.
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= ~$50 million

Marketing (hard to estimate):
~$30-40 million?
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total expenses: $80-90 milion


Each game copy sold generates $30.

So it would need to sell 2.67-3 million to break even.

Early numbers indicate a 900,000-1 million copies opening week, which means lifetime sales of 4 million.

4 million generates $120 million. So, pretty much guaranteed to make at least a lil profit.

It's hard to say, but Killzone: Liberation wasn't released until october 2006, and the dev tools for PS3 weren't out until early 2006, so dev costs are probably a little lower.

You're not saying PS3 launch games like Motorstorm and Resistance were made in just ½ a year of available hardware, are you? They must have had some form of game engine running before 2006 on a prototype PS3 or PC hardware or something. Or else it would be impossible to release games at console launch.

Games like Resistance usually take 2 years to develop. And KZ2 comes out another 2 years after the launch of PS3, so theoritical possible dev time is at least 4 years. Im finking they began KZ2 a few months before the release of the E3 trailer in 2005 (concept, design and art alongside making the prerendered trailer).